This must be divided into categories, actually. There are too many.
Current & upcoming for school: Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf; Ulysses, by James Joyce; Edward II, by Christopher Marlowe; Season of Migration to the North, by Tayeb Salih.
Purchased today: Jpod, by Douglas Coupland; The Papers of Samuel Marchbanks, by Robertson Davies; Interesting Times, by Terry Pratchett; England, England, by Julian Barnes; Jeeves in the Offing, by P G Wodehouse; Agnes Grey, by Anne Bronte; Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K Jerome; Indescretions of Archie, by P G Wodehouse; Too Busy Not to Pray, by Bill Hybels; The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly; The Bromeliad, by Terry Pratchett.
Though you are very short and often overshadowed, your voice is poetic and lyrical. Dark and brooding, you see the world as a hopeless effort of people trying to impress other people. Though you make reference to almost everything, you’ve really heard enough about Michelangelo. You measure out your life with coffee spoons.
Egad, I’ve been tagged. First, here are some six things:
Six Random Things About Myself:
1. You know how people can roll their tongues? I can do that. I can also roll my tongue upside-down (like an inverted ‘u’). What you have to do is brace the sides of your tongue against your bottom teeth, and then pop the top up. Go on, try it.
2. I love teacups. I love how delicate they are, and how fun to drink tea out of, and all the different patterns. I don’t have a large collection — okay, so far I only have three — but they’re the first thing I look at after books whenever I’m in an antique shop or suchlike.
Yes, it’s another meme — but this one involves LibraryThing, my favouritest website in the whole wide world, and so I could hardly exist resist. (I totally just typed “exist” instead of “resist” — but what the hey, I’m leaving it). My variation on the rules as laid out below is that I haven’t struck through any books, but instead appended comments here and there.
At any rate, the list below is of the top 106 books tagged as “unread” on LibraryThing.
I found this meme over on things mean a lot. I believe you’re supposed to list favourite books as well as favourite authors, but I haven’t done so because I’m difficult that way. Some days I just don’t know what to do with me. So my list is authors only, on the grounds that I probably can’t pick a particularly favourite book for most of them. I have therefore added a link to each author’s profile on LibraryThing, and you can peruse their titles at your leisure.
Besides Pride and Prejudice, anyway. That’s just a given.
Look at the list of (100) books below. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you want to read. Leave blank the ones that you aren’t interested in. (Movies don’t count.)
Better late than never, no? Here is Eva’s original post.
Which book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews?
There are many. Mostly romances, especially that strange brand of “inspiring” Christian romance novels. In my experience, those are almost inevitably bad. I often shy away from reading books just because they’re popular; I’ve never read anything by Dan Brown, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, or Danielle Steel. (This doesn’t apply in every case. I have read all of the Harry Potter books).
a) The Light Fantastic (Pratchett)
b) English Renaissance Drama (Ed. Bevington)
c) Middlemarch (Eliot)
2) Turn to the following pages: page 100 of book 1, page 200 of book 2, and page 300 of book 3.
Done!
3) Grab the fifth, sixth, and seventh sentences on each page and repost them.
a) “Shouldn’t we help?”
“I’m sure we’d only get in the way,” said Rincewind hurriedly. “You know what it’s like to have people looking over your shoulder when you’re busy.”
5 - I loved it! A definite keeper.
4 - The book is really quite good. I might read it again some day.
3 - An average read. Nothing much to love or hate.
2 - Starting to head toward the bottom of the barrel.
1 - Abysmal.
